The Paint Guide

[BulletTrain]

[CoolBUSA5454]

Damn all this info!! You guys are educated on the paint!! Might have to hook the busa up with some new clothes!!!!

[frisbee]

going ot paint mine in a month or two .

[cronkevalde]

Good post on painting!  I've been using House of Kolor stuff for years and love it. I prefer the UFC-35 Flo Klear. Seems to have even more gloss than the UC-35 if you can believe that! Lays out real good, and buffs up well.
 APO is a HOK adhesion promoter that is supposed to work well on plastics. APO-1 and APO-2 is how they are rated one is for plastics and the other is for non plastics. I can't remember which is which right now.
 I've  had lot of fun with the marbleizers and pearls. I recommend HOK stuff to anyone learning to paint, it's marvelous stuff and very user friendly. I wouldn't recommend using the APO's to promote adhesion between marbelizer and top coat clears as it doesn't work nearly as well as SG100 Intercoat clear. I use SG100 anytime I'm doing tape overs, art work, marbelizers, works best with RU 310 fast reducer. For those that haven't used this product it dries kinda funky and is best wet sanded as it tends to ball up in the sandpaper if dry sanded. No it's not a catalyzed clear or a top coat clear either just reduced 2 to 1 like most of HOK stuff.
anyway that's my 2 cents on painting. I love it!

[BusaCruise]

Perhaps I missed it...but does any have a line on the paint codes for the respective years?
I am having some small items painted to match soon, and would like to just give them a code acquire. I have an 05, so there is little if any worry of fading to match.

thanks.

[FloydV]

I have a stock 05 Blue/Silver Bus. What type of store sells paint, and how would I get paint that is the same color.

[Wag]

Great thread. Glad someone brought it back out of the archives.

--Wag--

[WWW.NAARDEN.BIZ]

There is Nothing better than standing out in a crowd!  My bike...Mine

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[Hoopech1]

I was looking to paint the frame of my blk/mar '06-I wanted to paint it a satin black so that it would look better than the stock silver. Two questions: Which type of paint shuld I use (type/brand) and how should I do it (sanding, washing, drying, spraying 2 light coats and 1 medium coat)? Thanks for any help.

[Wrath]

Paint seems to be way out of my league. I do want a custom job & would rather pay someone to do it right, than for me to screw it up & end up paying in the long run. I have a theme for my bike already, I just need to find a Guy out here in So. Cal that can do it for me. Any Ideas?



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[Revolution]

i paint

www.liquidmojopaint.com

aka

www.smokingunzpaint.com

[Revolution]

and something with more flash.

more samples at www.liquidmojopaint.com

aka www.smokingunzpaint.com

[jpracecraft]

just put the o7 back together this morning. I revamped the nebular pearl . Gave it some depth. And alot more shine.

[jpracecraft]

full shot . I embeded some cf look kanji with silver sparkly script.

[javie]

On a scale of hardness from 1-10 how hard would it be to do just one color for the whole bike? And what about basic graphics like tribal designs? I have to sand and paint my fairing.. might as well just do the whole bike hah

[BusaWhipped]

If you've painted anything before, one color 3-4. Basic graphics 5-6. What Revolution does 99-100.

[BusaWhipped]

If you've painted anything before, one color 3-4. Basic graphics 5-6. What Revolution does 99-100.

[BusaWhipped]

... duplicate post ...

[javie]

Alright cool, I've done car paint. Never even tried motorcycles and dont wanna mess up my bike

so kinda scary! I was thinkin about doing a retro hippie kinda basic flower graphic for fun. My neighbor is a die hard hippie and has 2 old vw vans in mint condition, he'd prob let me copy his designs

Hippie busa!

[javie]

Hm new question. I have my paints/sealers/etc all picked out. How much paint did it take to do your base coat?